To:L. B. KAMENEV

Written:Written between the end of September and October 1918Published:First published in 1933 inLenin Miscellany XXI.

      Printed from the original.Source:Lenin
	  Collected Works,

      Progress Publishers,1975,

      Moscow,Volume 44,

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Getwell quickly.

About“the fine theory of manoeuvring”.

Alltheories are goodifthey correspond to objective
reality.

Butour reality has changed, for if Germany is defeated,
it becomes impossible to manoeuvre, for there are no
longer the two belligerents,between whom we were
manoeuvring!!

Attention.[1]Britain would gobble us up, were it not for 
... the Red Army.

Idon’t think we should start talks about revision of
Brest, as that now would be running ahead.... We mustwait and see.

Getwell!Greetings,Yours,Lenin

[1]Thisword is in English in the original.—Ed.